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The Second Coming of Gozer
The Second Coming of Gozer
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Challenge: From Above II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D5000
Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR
Location: Ottawa
Date: Jul 7, 2009
Aperture: 4.8
ISO: 3200
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Cityscape, Action
Date Uploaded: Jul 7, 2009

 A friend of mine, Chris Rohde, built these models for a film that he is working on. I decided to incorporate them into this shoot while also including my childhood toy, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. It took me forever to decide whether to have the airplane or the set in focus.

Auto-Adjusted the levels, colour, and contrast in post.

Statistics
Place: 66 out of 141
Avg (all users): 5.3533
Avg (commenters): 6.6000
Avg (participants): 5.1429
Avg (non-participants): 5.4407
Views since voting: 978
Views during voting: 257
Votes: 167
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 07/20/2009 02:35:30 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

And a fellow Ottawan as it so happens, I grew up in our fine town :-) Now onto the critique.

Initial impression: LOVE the creativity and thought that went into this. Gozer fits in perfectly with scale of buildings around him. Would be too easy for him to overwhelm set completely or vanish in it.

Technical: Excellent lighting, composition very good, great shot for this challenge. I would have expected a higher finish but dpc voters can be very capricious. Again, the scale of the set works beautifully for you.

Artistic: Some may say the idea is plagiarized from the movie, but with this set you could have easily put in Godzilla or a giant woody (a la [user]ArtRoflmao[/user]and it still would've been a great concept and shot. Love the oof plane, adds interest and excitement to the shot. Without it, this could have risked looking static and - horrors! - uninteresting.

Overall: Damn wish I'd come up with this. And that's a good thing. Had I voted this would have been an 8 or 9, easy.

Feel free to PM me with any questions,

Susan
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/14/2009 11:11:20 AM
lol
 07/13/2009 06:01:43 PM
Challenge Relevance:7 Impact/Emotion/Mood:5 Technicals:6 Processing:6 Creativity:6
 07/10/2009 01:34:57 PM
Very funny.
 07/09/2009 09:54:20 PM
Who ya gonna call? :)
 07/09/2009 01:29:21 PM
LOL hilarous. Where Vegman and the ghostbusters to take him out ahhhhhhhh :)

WHO YOU GONNA CALL ??????? GHOSTBUSTERS
 07/08/2009 02:06:30 PM
The plane really makes this image work.
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 07/07/2009 08:24:54 PM
nice idea with the plane. it actually adds a lot to the photo
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